A/RES/69/2
United Nations
Distr.: General
25 September 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 65
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 September 2014
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/69/L.1)]
69/2.
Outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of
the General Assembly known as the World Conference
on Indigenous Peoples
The General Assembly
Adopts the following outcome document:
Outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the
General Assembly known as the World Conference on
Indigenous Peoples
1.
We, the Heads of State and Government, ministers and representatives of
Member States, reaffirming our solemn commitment to the purposes and principles
of the Charter of the United Nations, in a spirit of cooperation with the indigenous
peoples of the world, are assembled at United Nations Headquarters in New York on
22 and 23 September 2014, on the occasion of the high-level plenary meeting of the
General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, to
reiterate the important and continuing role of the United Nations in promoting and
protecting the rights of indigenous peoples.
2.
We welcome the indigenous peoples’ preparatory processes for the World
Conference, including the Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference held in Alta,
Norway, in June 2013. We take note of the outcome document of the Alta
Conference1 and other contributions made by indigenous peoples. We also welcome
the inclusive preparatory process for the high-level plenary meeting, including the
comprehensive engagement of the representatives of indigenous peoples.
3.
We reaffirm our support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the General Assembly on 13 September 2007,2 and
our commitments made in this respect to consult and cooperate in good faith with
the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in
order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and
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A/67/994, annex.
Resolution 61/295, annex.
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